Newsletter: Filipino singer-songwriter Benj Pangilinan drops music video for “Love, That’s Rare”

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Filipino singer-songwriter Benj Pangilinan is the newest recording artist this year to be launched under Sony Music Entertainment—home to some of the biggest acts in the country, including P-Pop royalty SB19 and multi-awarded band Ben&Ben.

Newsletter: Travis Scott, Bad Bunny, and The Weeknd releases new song “K-POP”

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Ahead of the imminent release of his fourth studio album UTOPIA, today diamond-certified, eight-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi-hyphenate Travis Scott releases his new single “K-POP” with Bad Bunny and The Weeknd. 

Newsletter: Skin like butterfly wings: UP scientists investigate rare deadly disease

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by Eunice Jean Patron, UPD-CS SciComm

As rare and deadly as it is poetically named, “Butterfly’s Disease” (scientifically known as “epidemolysis bullosa” or simply “EB”) has no known cure. But a handful of Filipino scientists are working their way towards a treatment.

Newsletter: KNOCK2 & NGHTMRE UNVEIL LONG-AWAITED FESTIVAL ANTHEM “ONE CHANCE” FEAT. MARLHY

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Rising San Diego DJ/producer Knock2 teams up with dance music titan NGHTMRE for a highly-anticipated collaboration “One Chance (feat. Marlhy)”, out now via 88rising and available on all streaming platforms. “One Chance” is Knock2's inaugural single via the pioneering 88rising label.

Newsletter: Survey confirms disappearing population of critically-endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Bicol

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No sooner has their existence been confirmed that the rare Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) of San Miguel Bay in Bicol are already at risk of disappearing from the region.

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Newsletter: Kaspersky reveals top-three vacation-season scams

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With the vacation season in full swing, people around the world are searching for enticing travel destinations, affordable accommodations, and reasonably priced flights. Kaspersky researchers have observed fraudsters taking advantage of unsuspecting users by offering cheap airline tickets, booking deals, and vacation packages. To help travelers avoid scams, the company's researchers have outlined common fraud schemes used to entice victims, along with valuable advice on planning a scam-free vacation.

Newsletter: AI-powered Baybayin translator being developed by UP mathematicians

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by Eunice Jean Patron, UPD-CS SciComm

Filipino mathematicians have just invented a computerized method for converting entire paragraphs and even full documents written in the ancient Filipino Baybayin writing system into text that even non-native readers can easily understand. And they’re now hard at work developing a full two-way translator.

Newsletter: Jvke releases new remix of global hit single “golden hour,” with SB19

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Today, multi-talented viral artist, songwriter, and GRAMMY®-nominated producer JVKE celebrates hitting 1 billion streams for the all-conquering global hit "golden hour" with a brand-new remix featuring the multi award-winning P-Pop boy group SB19, out now via AWAL.

Newsletter: WARREN HUE RELEASES “TENNESSEE,” NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO OUT NOW VIA 88RISING

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Warren Hue —the 21-year-old artist to watch from Jakarta— delivers “TENNESSEE,” his new single and video, out now via 88rising. Produced by longtime collaborator Chasu, the ethereal track presents a more subdued and contemplative direction for Warren Hue’s multidimensional sound. Hitting on the bliss and ease of knowing you’re on the right path, the languid and vibey track offers reassurance that things are meant to be. “TENNESSEE is a song I wrote during a time in my life when I had a lot going on in my mind, fighting my inner thoughts.” Warren shared. “It’s a song about trying to rediscover who I am as a person in a tough period of my life, blocking out what people were trying to tell me to do or say. It’s one of my most personal and introspective songs I’ve released so far.” Filmed during a late night outing in New York City, the “TENNESSEE” music video captures Warren's comfort in solitude as he rides through the city and dances alone under the neon lights.

Newsletter: LOIR’s debut EP, Chapters exhibits emotional maturity beyond years

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After dropping ethereal tunes that capture the struggles of youth in the most genuinely honest way, Filipino recording artist LOIR is now ready to open up old wounds and deliver an unsparing narration of her teenage life in her debut EP, Chapters, out today via Sony Music Entertainment.

Newsletter: UPD-CS embarks on joint int’l study to fight snail-borne disease in PHL villages

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UPD-CS Dean Dr. Giovanni Tapang (seated, second from left) is joined by (seated, L-R) UPD-CS IB Director Dr. Ian Kendrich Fontanilla, CWRC Deputy Chief Engineer Guiya Chen, CWRC-CRSI Vice President Shiming Yao, UPD-CS IB Assistant Professor Dr. Ian Kim Tabios, and UPD-CS IB Assistant Professor Dr. Lerrie Ann Ipulan-Colet (standing, rightmost) at a courtesy call by CWRC-CRSI researchers last June 26. (PHOTO CREDIT: Dr. Ian Kim Tabios)

The University of the Philippines - Diliman College of Science’s Institute of Biology (UPD-CS IB) recently entered into an international research collaboration to fight a parasitic snail-borne tropical disease that affects millions of Filipinos across the country.

Newsletter: Oh, Flamingo!’s acclaimed album, Pagtanda available for exclusive pre-orders at the band’s birthday concert this week!

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Filipino indie-rock quartet Oh, Flamingo! will be celebrating their 10th anniversary in the music scene with a birthday concert happening on July 15, 2023 (Saturday), from 4 pm onwards at the 123 Block in Mandaluyong City.

Newsletter: Pinoy archaeologist helps rewrite human history in Southeast Asia

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Filipino geoarchaeologist Vito Hernandez (second from right, with camera) with his fellow researchers in Tam Pà Ling in northern Laos. (PHOTO CREDIT: Macquarie University / Kira Westaway)

New findings from a cave in northern Laos add to a growing body of evidence that modern humans arrived in Southeast Asia over 80,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The groundbreaking findings were recently published in the prestigious journal, Nature.

Newsletter: Kaspersky PH report: Mobile malware drops, ranks 2nd most hit by crypto-phishing in SEA

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Kaspersky today revealed that the mobile malware it has detected on devices of users of its solutions in the Philippines went down by half in 2022 compared to 2021.